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Um time movido por uma missão: equilibrar a dinâmica de poder na cadeia de valor do café.

Levando a indústria para a frente

Toda ideia de negócio começa com um problema a ser resolvido. Em nosso caso, o problema surgiu durante uma viagem por fazendas de café no Brasil. Os cafeicultores não sabiam quem bebia seu café. Os grãos colhidos ficavam no país ou iam para a Alemanha? O café bebia bem ou mal? Os consumidores gostavam ou não? 

Quando a Algrano nasceu em 2015, partimos em uma missão: democratizar a cadeia global de fornecimento de café, conectando cafeicultores diretamente a torradores na internet. Embora a missão seja grande, o início foi humilde. Nosso primeiro embarque em dezembro de 2015 foi de meio contêiner. Saiu da Nicarágua com quatro pedidos de café rumo à Suíça e Alemanha. 

Desde então, a Algrano embarcou centenas de contêineres de café (cheios!) de centenas de produtores na América Latina, África e Ásia para centenas de torradores na Europa. Nosso trabalho é principalmente nos bastidores: asseguramos a qualidade quando o café viaja, oferecemos financiamento para torradores e cuidamos de toda a logística. Exportação, embarque, importação, armazenamento e transporte rodoviário... É tudo por nossa conta. 

Durante o transporte desses contêineres, descobrimos o quanto planilhas de Excel e telefonemas ainda fazem parte do comércio de café. É por isso que, em paralelo, desenvolvemos a plataforma online que está trazendo a indústria do café para o século 21. 

Junte-se a nós. Vamos para a frente com café, levando a indústria com a gente. E esse é apenas o começo...

Os Algranitos

Christian Burri
Produto e Marketing

Christian tem experiência em meios digitais e física. Com essas habilidades combinadas, ele planeja e gerencia o desenvolvimento da plataforma on-line da algrano e nossas atividades de marketing e comunicação. Antes da algrano, Christian trabalhou para uma empresa suíça de consultoria sediada em Santiago, Chile.

O melhor café? Directly on the field, together with the producers.

Gilles Brunner
Chief Coffee Officer

Gilles tem formação em Relações Internacionais e Desenvolvimento. Antes de fundar a Algrano, trabalhou na área da sustentabilidade numa grande empresa de comércio de café. Na Algrano, actua agora como Chief Coffee Officer, supervisionando o comércio e as operações.

O melhor café? Um café natural de Joselino Meneguete no Coffee Lab, em São Paulo, em 2013

Raphael Studer
Finanças e Vendas

Raphael é Phd em Economia e tem vasta experiência em desenvolvimento de negócios. Na algrano, Raphael gerencia as finanças e é o principal contato com as torrefadoras. Antes da algrano, Raphael trabalhou para uma empresa de comércio de energia em Berna, Suíça.

O melhor café? A sweet Aeropress in front of the surfvan shared with my family, overlooking the ocean

Florian Schaffner
CFO and Head of Data

Florian is Algrano's Chief Financial Officer and go-to person for anything related to data. He holds a PhD in Economics and has worked for major Swiss companies in the banking and insurance sector, focussing on Analytics, Machine Learning and Investment Performance.

O melhor café? A doppio in the morning, and a filtered coffee in the afternoon – brewed directly in Algrano's inhouse lab. Not quite over the fermented coffee (yet)!

Veronika Kečkéšová
Quality Manager & Sales Manager for Central Europe

Professional barista with a background in English language studies, Veronika makes sure that the green beans find their way to the right shelf, right file and the right person.

O melhor café? Filter, whatever place or setting. I enjoy it the most when there is no reason to rush.

Tom Booth
Sales Director UK

Tom has over 10 years experience in the UK coffee industry before joining Algrano in 2019. From cafe operations to training and heading up a sales team for a leading coffee roaster. Tom is our UK Sales Director, responsible for managing the Algrano platform for all roasters in the UK.

O melhor café? In the morning a flat white and in the afternoon a Chemex with a fresh and funky natural.

Zmago Devetak
Software engineer

Curious, kind and funny, and with a background in Economics and Informatics, Zmago builds new features for the algrano platform.

O melhor café? Filter coffee. Preferably at home, early in the morning.

Luiza Pereira Furquim
Head of Content

Luiza worked as a journalist in Sāo Paulo, Brazil, until 2016 when she embraced coffee as a career. She started as a barista, moved to the UK and soon got involved in roasting. She was a head roaster before joining Algrano's Sourcing team, and later moving to Marketing.

O melhor café? Industrial quantities of anything chocolatey and bright. Finca El Recuerdo's Anaerobic Caturra has a special place in her heart.

Gert-Jan Eling
Operations Manager

Gert-Jan has a background in operations & logistics and worked previously in chemical, petrochemical, and mining industry. He is responsible for shipping coffee safely around the world to your doorstep.

O melhor café? A Chemex on a lazy Sunday morning.

Jon Kyte
Front-End Designer

Jon is a designer and front-end developer passionate about inclusive design and putting the user at the heart of what we do. Jon is responsible for the look and feel of the Algrano platform.

O melhor café? A flat white in a busy cafe whilst watching the world go by.

Eli Elisa Blaich
Sourcing Manager

With a masters degree in international trading and years of experience in the agricultural trading world across multiple countries, Eli possesses a broad range of knowledge across all aspects of international supply chains, trade finance and shipping. Coffee is her passion and she loves to connect to growers and their stories.

O melhor café? A filter coffee with tropical flavours made with love

Eugenia Bertoni
UX/UI Designer & Front-end Developer

Eugenia enjoys taking complex problems and turning them into simple and meaningful user experiences. She also loves the logic and structure of coding and always strives to write elegant and efficient code.

O melhor café? A large cup of cappuccino served with a piece of chocolate

Aldo Gulizia
Accountant

Aldo was born in Italy and moved to Switzerland. He holds MSc in Business Administration and gained experience in the fashion luxury business before to join Algrano. His interests are astronomy and fitness.

O melhor café? Ristretto after the lunch during a holiday in southern Italy.

Hassan El Ashram
Software engineer

Born in Egypt, but grew up in Geneva. I have a Bachelor in Business Administration but became a software engineer out of passion. I love cinema, joking and traveling a little too much.

O melhor café? Iced coffee

Mafer García Spiegeler
Marketing Manager

Mafer is a Guatemalan graphic designer with a background in international education and ESL teaching. At Algrano, she ensures everything marketing-related runs smoothly by structuring and tracking our efforts. Additionally, she also manages our social media channels.

O melhor café? A refreshing cold brew in hot tropical weather.

Vanessa Heringer
Producers Success Manager

Formada em relações internacionais, Vanessa possui sólido conhecimento da cadeia de valor do café, com experiência em originação, logística, operações e trading. De família produtora, nasceu e cresceu em uma das maiores regiões produtoras de café do Brasil, Matas de Minas. Apaixonada por interagir com cafeicultores e torradores, ela é responsável pela gestão do sucesso dos produtores latino-americanos.

O melhor café? Uma caneca grande de café filtrado com um toque de leite

Christoph Krenn
Producers Success Manager

Christoph has a background in Software Engineering and is responsible for Producers Success for the Africa & Asia regions. He enjoys being in daily contact with coffee producers and assisting them along their whole customer journey with Algrano. Always on the lookout for coffee knowledge, he's currently enrolled in the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Coffee Excellence at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

O melhor café? A complex filter coffee with fruity and floral notes

Yannick Lauber
Sales Manager DACH

Yannick joined the sales team of Algrano and is responsible for the DACH region. He holds a BSc in International Hospitality Management from École Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and worked the last four years in customer relationship management in corporate banking.

O melhor café? A Cortado in the morning and an Espresso in the afternoon. Just perfect!

Ignacio Fernandez
Operations Officer

Licensed in Middle Eastern Studies with a Master's degree in International Commerce. Landed in Switzerland after working in Dubai, Madrid and UK. Some might say he has traveled more than a container. Passionate about international operations and music lover.

O melhor café? Cortado, por favor.

Cormac Fitzgerald
Marketing Automation Manager

Cormac moved to Switzerland from Ireland has a background in marketing and data analytics. He works to ensure that we make informed decisions and always learn from our actions.

O melhor café? The coffee in my cup

Agnete Stoffersen
UX Researcher

Agnete has a background in Social Anthropology. She enjoys to explore people's customs, values and beliefs and has done so in many parts of the world, from extreme sports enthusiasts in Switzerland to karaoke enthusiast in the Philippines. At Algrano, Agnete gathers knowledge about Algrano's users and services to create the best possible user experience for everyone onboard.

O melhor café? A cappuccino in the morning

Elisabeth Volant
Sales Manager

After a master of Geography of food and food cultures at the Sorbonne in Paris, Elisabeth discovered the world of coffee during an internship at a Parisian roastery. She then moved to Amsterdam and worked during 6 years as account manager at a coffee importer. She is responsible of the sales in the French and Spanish speaking regions.

O melhor café? A Chemex filter coffee slowly savoured in the early morning when everybody is still sleeping.

Giovanna Rocha
Operations Manager

Giovanna studied Social Sciences but has always worked in coffee, first exporting coffee in Kenya, and more recently coordinating specialty imports in Europe. She's passionate about quality and is also a Q-grader.

O melhor café? Any natural or prolonged fermentation on filter, lots of it. 

Michalina Baldyga
Quality lab assistant

Michalina has a background in Internal Security and Special Education, but her passion to coffee turned out to be stronger. It results in 7+ years of experience in coffee roasting. At Algrano she likes to makes things happen.

O melhor café? Uganda Bugisu, one more please.

Rita Ashemeza
Social Media Manager

Rita was raised in a coffee-growing family in a small village in Southwest Uganda, where the proceeds from their business helped pay for her education. Despite her petite stature, she developed a strong work ethic from carrying heavy coffee sacks on the mountainous terrain. After working as an entertainment journalist and radio producer in the Ugandan capital for four years, she moved to Switzerland to earn a Master's degree in Media Management. Now at Algrano, she handles the company's social media and bi-weekly newsletters.

O melhor café? A cappuccino paired with a croissant.

Kees Olthof
Head of Product

With a degree in Artificial Intelligence and over a decade of experience in Ecommerce, Marketplaces, and Wholesale, Kees is passionate about leveraging technology to make a positive impact. At Algrano he works on the development of the marketplace to help build long-lasting relationships between coffee growers and roasters.

O melhor café? A simple Moka pot coffee in the morning that fills up the entire apartment with the smell of freshly brewed coffee.

Kosta Kallivrousis
Gerente de Vendas nos EUA

Com sede no Missouri, Kosta trabalha na indústria do café especial dos EUA há mais de 12 anos. Ele começou como barista, participou de competições, mudou para controle de qualidade e torra. Em 2016, assumiu o cargo de gestor de clientes em café verde, dando-lhe uma plataforma para aprender sobre a cadeia de originação e promover os interesses de cafeicultores. Sua missão pessoal é contribuir para a construção de um canal onde as vozes dos produtores possam ser ouvidas. Fora do trabalho, Kosta pode ser encontrado na companhia da sua bela esposa e de três monstrinhos ou com o nariz enfiado num livro.

O melhor café? Uma xícara que o conecta com velhos amigos, com os novos e com a família.

Elisabet Sereno
Head of Quality

Elisabet has a 20-year+ background in enhancing coffee quality, crafting new products, and empowering fellow professionals. Co-founder of La Marzocco and the Speciality Coffee Association in Spain. Her passion for coffee's intricacies fuels her mission to share expertise and foster industry growth.

O melhor café? My latest discovery because it's an ever growing list... Bernardina Varietal from El Salvador - Natural Process; it has the complexity of a gesha, the fruitiness of Ethiopian heirlooms, and the sweetness and deepness of Salvadorian coffees.

Henrik Möller
Northern Europe Sales Manager

Born and bred in the Swedish countryside, Henrik moved to the UK as a teenager. He discovered the love for coffee while studying for a BA in music business, and spent nearly a decade managing the wholesale team at a pioneering coffee roastery in London. Henrik now resides in Prague from where he is responsible for our Nordic clients.

O melhor café? Chemex on a lazy Sunday morning

O Universo Algrano

12 países

de origem dos Algranitos 

17 idiomas

falados pela equipe

1 paixão

que nos mantém unidos 

Nosso Conselho Diretor

Mario Fontana

Mario foi Presidente do Swissquote Group Holding e do Swissquote Bank. Ele também atuou como Gerente Global de Serviços Financeiros e Gerente Geral de Informática da Helwett-Packard Europa & EUA.

Adriaan Nühn

Adriaan é o Presidente do Conselho Supervisor da JustEatTakeaway.com. Ele atuou como CEO da Sara Lee International e Presidente do Conselho Executivo da Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts até 2018. 

Pascal Mathis

Pascal é Sócio Fundador da Wingman Ventures, criada em 2017 para financiar startups de tecnologia. Ele é co-fundador da GetYourGuide, a plataforma de reservas de tours e atrações líder no mundo. 

Sara Morrocchi

Cientista política motivada por impacto social, Sara é a fundadora e CEO da Vuna Coffee Consulting, uma consultoria que desenvolve soluções para os desafios de produtores e organizações produtoras. Com mais de 15 anos de experiência na indústria café, ela criou ainda uma escola digital e uma marca de cafés torrados.

Fabio Magagna

Fabio tem mais de 15 anos de expertise no setor das TIC (Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação) como empreendedor, pesquisador, consultor e gerente em grandes corporações.  Ele é o atual Gerente Global Senior de Produto no YouTube/Google e investidor anjo na BetaFarm.

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Premiações

Specialty Coffee Association Best New Product

Best New Product SCA Coffee 2015

Startup Brasil Award

Startup Chile Award

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